Thanks for the info, but all I'm running is the built in firewall and MSE. In fact, I have a rule for incoming and outgoing for my local subnet and /24 to allow all. That rule is on both computers. Could it be related to having a workgroup? Since I don't actually have a DNS server running or...
This is more of an annoyance but when I initially try to connect to a share on my network it takes about 30 -60 seconds. For example, when I go to \\1.1.1.1\c$ or even \\netbiosname\sharename it will take 30-60 seconds to connect. It will connect and after that everything is fast and...